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Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Grace
Carbonated
Holiness
Laughter
Humor

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All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like when you're first learning to put nail polish on your right hand with your left. You can do it, but it doesn't look all that great around the cuticles.
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.
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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
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Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
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My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
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